I am a anti-revisionist Communist hardliner, supporting the principles of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao.

1. What's your understanding of Democracy?

Democracy is a system in which the People rule themselves.
The Western system in which the People elect who and which party should opress them for the next four to six years is therefore not true Democracy.
True Democracy can only be reached under Communism, if the People democratically rule the means of production and therefore society itself.

The problem with the modern world is that western "democracy" has become a dogma which the West wants to enforce everywhere on the planet, even with violence.

2. What's your understanding of Communism?

Communism is a perfect, egalitarian, classless and stateless society that can only be reached after a sufficient amount of time under Socialism.
Unfortunately, no Socialist nation has existed long enough to be transformed into Communism.

3. What's your understanding of Capitalism?

Capitalism is a system in which money is the center of everything in the world. Capitalists only look for profit and therefore destroy humanity, dignity and the Earth itself.
Capitalism is a system of exploitation of the massive majority of the world by a extremely small but extremely rich oppressive capitalist class.

Capitalism is a system that cannot be improved and has to be totally destroyed.

4. What's your understanding of Fascism?

Fascism is a system created by capitalism with the goal of destroying Communism. It's capitalism in its purest, rawest form.

5. Make a list of the all human rights you consider essential

-Food
-Shelter
-Healthcare
-Water
-Education

6. What's your understanding of Freedom?

True freedom can only be reached under Socialism and Communism, as true freedom means you can decide about the way society is ruled.
Individual freedom however, is second to collective freedom.

7. What's your understanding of Equality?

Equality is the most important aspect of the World.
Equality is the center of all Communism.

8. What's your understanding of a prosperous society?

Only a Socialist/Communist society is a prosperous one.

9. What's your stance towards the environment?

The Earth is sacred. As long as capitalism exists, it will destroy our environment and planet.

I had written a damn long post about vanguardism and everything got erased.... damnit...

Nice to see another Hardliner.... :-) and a belgian comrade!

You raise interesting points. Allow me to ask you one thing, though:

Wakizashi wrote:

Individual freedom however, is second to collective freedom.

How do you feel about the notion that "individual freedom" will lead to "collective freedom"? Most Anarchists would raise the point that collectives are only good solely because they are composed of individuals - people with all sorts of hopes, dreams, desires, fears, passions, etc. When each individual is "free" - which, of course, is a very vague notion, but for the sake of this argument it is not necessary to elucidate upon what "freedom" truly is - then the group will be free.

However, if the collective is "free" first - meaning that the collective is able to pursue its own interests before the individuals within the collective - and the individuals are only free second, then how can the "collective" in its entirety be free? If a collective institution pursues its own freedom before the freedom of all those to whom belong to it, then is it truly ensuring freedom?

An example of this would be the State - the worst collectivist institution out there. If the State pursues what it perceives to be its own collective interests first - like, say, wiretapping your phone in the name of the hallowed "War on Terror", so called - then it invariably puts the freedom of the individuals second - because their privacy is being invaded. But, truly, this demonstrates that freedom in the name of the collective does not create freedom.

I would have to counterpoise, then, that a collective grouping is only good - and I consider myself within the tradition of the more collectivist Anarchists - if it puts the interests of its individuals first, rather than its own interests. In this way, freedom is assured, and a more efficient, civilized society will be the outcome.

So I guess my question can be summed up in this way: how can collective freedom ensure freedom for all, rather than for some?

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I'll be more laconic and try to be more straightforward than my comrade WWW in asking, perhaps, essentialy the same: How can collective freedom exist without individual freedom? The collective is composed of individuals so if the collective is free then individuals ought to be free within it.

you are one lost soul.
you should read some marx.